Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage

In recent years, the ways in which digital technologies have come to shape our experience of the world has been an immensely popular subject in the horror film genre. Contemporary horror cinema reflects and exploits the anxieties of our age, in its increasing use of hand-held techniques and in its motifs of surveillance, found footage (fictional films that appear ‘real’: comprising discovered video recordings left behind by victims/protagonists) and ‘digital haunting’ (when ghosts inhabit digital technologies).